The Skweezer Blog

I just read that Twikini, a popular mobile Twitter client for Windows mobile devices, now features an option to launch links through Skweezer. Twikini is the latest of a number of mashups, apps, and services that take advantage of Skweezer’s free API to provide users with mobile-friendy Web browsing.

It’s always interesting to see how different people and programmers use our technology–from Chinese dissidents using Skweezer for anonymous Web access to the folks at Twikini enhancing their Twitter app… it’s gratifying to see that so many people are finding a use for our technology.

If you’re a programmer, you can check out our API information sheet at http://company.skweezer.com/developers.

A little info on Twikini from their site:

“Twikini offers a powerful and efficient way to use Twitter on your phone. It conveniently updates your favorite feeds in the background, and leverages the camera, GPS, media, touch screen, keyboard, graphics and storage capabilities of your device.

Our goal is to make Twikini the best designed Twitter app for Windows devices in the world.”

Posted by Mark Sieve

Update: Posted this 5 minutes ago and was just sent an e-mail about another mobile Twitter client called TinyTwitter that’s also using Skweezer. Guess there are a lot of people building Twitter apps these days…

Recently, a Danish consultancy—Strand Consult Publications—put out a surprising "reality check" on the hype surrounding the iPhone.

I, for one, was surprised to see a list of ten myths purported to be false by this consultancy:

1. The iPhone drives data traffic into mobile operators networks
2. The iPhone helps operators attract new customers
3. The iPhone is good business for mobile operators
4. The iPhone is dominating the mobile services market
5. App store is a huge success that has revolutionised the services market
6. There is money to be made by developing applications for the iPhone
7. It is iPhone customers that are generating the majority of online mobile surfing traffic
8. The iPhone has a large market share
9. The iPhone was the first mobile phone with a touchscreen
10. The iPhone is a technologically advanced mobile phone

Unscientifically, I see more and more of my colleagues, friends, and family acquiring iPhones, Blackberries, Vue’s, Pre’s, et al smartphones. So, it’s surprising to see that iPhone—the perceived champion of all mobile devices—is causing a negligible effect… and in some cases a loss… with operators worldwide. For example, AT&T said they would’ve had a 40% margin had they not launched iPhone 3GS. Apparently, further network backhaul was needed to support the vast amounts of data consumption these smartphones create:

Nonetheless, I’m heartened by the increased amounts of smartphone usage and the "investment" the carriers are willing to do now to begin realizing the profits from such devices long-term.

The question is, how long?

By Kevin Perkins